Violin
by Anne Rice
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Author: Anne RiceEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-07
ISBN: 0345425308
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: I can't seem to forget it.
Summary: 4 Stars
I picked this novel up in a train station bookstore in Europe this summer and was captivated. It is as unusual as anything I've ever read and I'd actually have a hard time thinking of who to recommend it to, but to be honest I am totally unable to quit thinking about portions of it. Anne Rice has always had a style that I like, she is what I believe a true story teller should be..........smart, intuitive and blessed with a gift of description unlike few authors ever.
Summary of Violin
In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.If neatness counts for you, don't count on Anne Rice's musical-ghost novel Violin. It is an eruption of the author's personal demons, as messy as the monster bursting from that poor fellow's chest in the movie Alien. Like Rice, the heroine Triana lives in New Orleans, mourns a dead young daughter and a drunken mother, and is subject to uncanny visions. A violin-virtuoso ghost named Stefan time-trips and globetrots with Triana, taunting her for her inability to play his Stradivarius--which echoes composer Salieri's jealousy in Amadeus and possibly Rice's jealousy of her successful poet husband Stan Rice in the years before her own florid, lurid writing made her famous. The storytelling here is too abstract, but the almost certainly autobiographical emotions could not be more visceral. At one point, the narrator exclaims, "Shame, blame, maim, pain, vain!" But Rice's dip in the acid bath of memory was not in vain--she packs the pain of a lifetime into 289 pages.
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